The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?
The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.
Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.
Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.
National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
The young people of India will build a strong and powerful nation, a nation that is politically mature and economically strong, a nation whose people enjoy both a high quality of life as well as justice.
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
Power exercised under the cloak of national security is odious. But power exercised under the microkini of national security is totally hot.
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?
You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.
If terrorists aren't limited by borders and boundaries, we can't be, either.
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
